Tex Slam Gbıærvær, bears that Phya Maha Yole, the Siamese Ambassador to the Court of St. James, will shortly return to Bangkok, when his place will be taken, pro tam, by Phya
Vlandi.
Some monika nga two man of the Royal Engineers spent imo or three days in building a brick culvert near the Barracks of the Hongkong Regiments. No water ever came out of li, but as a specimen of brickwork It was excellant. Now, this culvert has been broken up to allow at the foundation of a retaining wall being laid We should greatly like to know whether the two R. E. men balli ike culvert for amusement and at their own expense. If not, who la responsible for this waste of pabilc money ?
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,
MR. DUDGEON'S MISSION.
results in many a merchant at first selling goods on the basis of the tariff duty to afterwards End by doar experience that the tariff is a puro farco and the duty arbitrarily flæed by the highest in authority. It is high time that these abuses and absurdities wire brushed away ; a deânite, absolute tariff being substituted, all goods, not arumerated in the tariff being tree. This would relieve the Customs and merchants alike of mach worry and unpleasantness and conducs of to the best interests of trade.—Mercury,
LONDON LETTER.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1896.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF NAVIGA- TION AND SHIP-BUILDING
IN JAPAN.
the improvement of the river fairway under sarmal conditions would seems to be an eaty matter. Contracted nozzles were applied to the discharge pipes (under water) of powerful contil fagal pumps ; the cake of hard send two or three inches thick was benken through in a few
DEPARTURE.
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LEGAL INTELLIGENCE, HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
SUPREME COURT.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
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PASSED THE CANAL. OUTWARD-1st September-Howick Hall, qih
ing the ship. In the Chlef Commissioner's | Ha will also explain the condition of the'f krisen, it in treated, were the American to the logbooks and other necessary documents. 6. Pak Chi Lano, ; The defendant, Cheung Kam September-Trenkat, 818 September-AntenovĮ
—master's ceillscate. Under these clrcumstances,
The Department of Communications will sue the bounty after perusing these documents. Besides the roles relating to ship-building, there
are 18 special articles pertaining to the encour
been bullt, bounty will be granted' after the ship has been inspected and undergone a trial trip.
AN INTERUM INJUNCTION, The plaintiff applied for an toterim infancilan | against the defendants to restrain them from excavating and. Laying dratos on plaintiff's pro- I of rection 6 of Inland Lot 6 and occupies Tio,'ls compradora to Messrs. Mayer & Co., and | Cam, Natlar (n. 11th September-Milbourne, Kintuck 5th September-swanley, Cares. Mr. J. J. Francis. Q.C. (instructed by Mr. 18th September Japan, Khadima. Chan King Po is a contractor.
Bowley, of Mr. Denny's office). appeared for the September-Vlysras ajih September-Bixledt, Only the second defendant had been served HOMEWARD
September-Borneo, with the writ of summons; the others | Glamorganshire, Strathuocks, Maria Rich were sald to be absent from the colozymers. 35th September-Marquis Bacquekers,
procure the log books of the Anchises, and it is dan which may shock the Board of Revenus I may be truly said that the government of the Moreover, no hoanty is to be granted unless the Mr. Francis then read the notice of motion, the Yarra.
THE REBELLION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
ship-yard at which she is to be ballt conforms to the following particulars :——
1.Slipt and plant necessary for the construc- ion of such a ship must be provided.
Intimations.
ant
SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DES CHARBON.
NAGES DU TONKIN.
[N, C. Daily News, Sepl. azst] Shanghat need vot leur for itself as long as it has soch public-spirited and energetic clilienu |
Yokohama, Septembar 15th. as the men who compose its Mon!cipal Courel)
The Roles relating to the Law for the Esmates and seemed to be lifted bodily up over and Its Committees of the Chamber of
a large area. As soon as this cruat was broken, Commerce and the Chlon Association. The
couragement of Navigation and Ship-building the soft silt beneath started off down streaza. vigour that the Chamber of Commerce
were issued on Saturday (rath September.) As hom's work saw an Improvement of 3 feet than once referred to; in nothing has it done has displayed of late has been more
They include 45 articles referring to the En- to the channel. We are now fell of hope for the Rather better than in its decision to accredit Mr. Dad-
couragement of Navigation, while Shipbalidleg fature.-N. C. Daily News. good as its representative to the Diplomatie Body
| receives no less than 379 articles subdivided into at Peking. Primally, Mr. Dudgeon goes
"{From our own Correspondent)) the representative of the
two chapters. Shipowners desirous of obtaining to Peking a
LONDON," August aßth.. Cotton MIl ladustry; to show the
the bounty are to submit applications to the The "eilly season" is on, and were it not that Central Government through the respective Diplomastic Body the Impolicy of allow-
you may be looking for a note of seme kind I ing the products of the four Cotton Mills that are now rising so rapidly in Shanghai to be taxed should have felt fnclined to have let the mail Local Offices. When the Minister of Com pass without one. The wet weather, the end of munications perceives, siter perusing the docu- more highly than imported goods, whether
the cricket season, the condition and the pro-ments submitted to him, that the applications (Before his Lordship Dr. J. W. Carrington, | Diutation." directly or by means of squeezes on the raw cotton, or by squeezts do the good#pects of grassa and partridge shooting, dominate Reserve acknowledgment, ka will deter- conversation much more than the colonial THE papers la connection with the Special themselves after they leave the mills;
exhibits in the city, or the fact that Zanzibar kan mlae whether to grant the bounty or not, Court of Enquiry, convened on the 17th June and the lejaslice of showing any preference been bombarded They are a curiously tempered but only after an expert has inspected the
in the mille entirely owned by Chinese.. last to lavestigate the cause of the stranding of Mr. Dudgeon has also undertaken to represent people that dwell in the centre of this far-reach-steamer or steamers speclied in the document. Ing Empire. The condition of their countrymen A written permission will be issued to the the steamer Anchiess, have, xxys the Rangoon the Chamber of Commerce in the matter of the
who are alt times their near relaitons, bai who Gazette, been returned with the Chief Commis proposed revision of the tariff, his instructions reside to one of the extremities of the realm, applicant when the ships are found duly quall- stoner's orders thereon. The master of the practically being that importers here will becomes a matter of indifference and passes fied. In making for bounty the shipowout vessel, Thos. Wood, was unanimously found "gree to the raising of the tariff to ten per out of their lives completely. When any should, on the completion of each voyage, send perly. The plaintiff G the owner of sub-secitan
cent ad valorem, it' all internal squeezes gulity by the Court of gross negligence in navigat and restrictions on the trade are removed. question in connectan with Colonial politics colonies when their grievances were ille more upinion, the Court, being apparently unaware of Chios tes trade whose threatened extinction their powers, have emitted to deal with the is largely due to the high local and imperial than a century ago. There is the same spirit, zastion to which toe is anbject, amounting aften shall I call it want of splitt, sow. It is difficult
to give it a name. This lethargy, Is it one of at prevent prices to fly and more per cent.
true greatness in an Impcatal people; or la it the the Chief Commissioner is advised that the only China tex eranot obviously'now kaps to compeia neglect consequent on the impending chaos, the ↑ *gement of ship-building. When ship ban / plaintiff and said the defendants did not appear. Glaneyla, Hyson, Yarra, Strathtay. suitable course is to order the re-bearing of the with the entirely untaxed product of Ceylas result of overgrowth? With truth the latter and India. The foreign tes-merchants propose statement may be "apheld as the conditon of enquiry. The Special Court omitted also to
the entire abolition of duties on tes; a sugges-
the mind of the masses; but, on the other hand, supposed that Captain Wood took them but whose adeption would be a benefit of the
Colonies was never more in evidence than at the with him to Penang.
highest importance to the native tes-growers and merchants. Mr. Dadgeon can lay the views of sent moment. One great fact is, however, to the front Just now, and that is, that the news- the foreigners interested in these inziters before. the Diplomalle Body and the Tespecior-General Paper Press are dinting into the public ear the anwelcome news that our trade is being sipped of Costomy, and the Tangli Yamda far better
at all woond. The Germans are in the fort than any number of despatches. He knows front of the attack, and the Americans are his subjects well, and takes a deep personal not far behind them.
Every nation is interest in them. Of his private qualifications engaged in the attempt to steal away our The Straliz_ Times gives the following for the mission be has undertaken there is so
commerce, and is succeeding to their own Information vs the rebellion -
need to say anything. We are warned by a
utter astonishment. The present moment is a French newspaper that the French leading
most timed one to attempt to arouse the Government will not co-operate with me in the
people of Britain. Their money is so plentiful negotiation for a revision of the Chinese that it is doubtful if at any previous time in the tariff, but that warning man not be taken history of the country waathare so much money
After what has recently in the bands of all classes. occurred in Peking, It is not likely that any working classes is betrayed in their exalted other Minister will be very eager for the co-opera- notions al how their children ought to be tion of M. Gérard; but the other Ministers schooled, and dressed, and fed. A most desir
able condition of affairs it we can afford to keep will no doubt work together in what bids fair to be a not very easy lask, even should
It up; but one has to remember that nations as well as individuals bave their years of prosperity H. E. Li Hong-chang be at Peking to of the assistance that Mr. Dudgeon will be able that is upon us now; bai the mere accumula to give them. and Mr. Dadzean's position will be tion of gold or silver does not constitute wealth fonified by Lord Salisbury's promise not to come any more than the storage of imeteorie stoner, On the oth, a telegram was pubified convey-to any definite arrangement with China until We have always before our eyes the example of log congratulations from the Minister of War to after consultation with the Far Eastern modern Spain, Her adventurous sons brought the Governor-General for his sa-cess in making || Chambers of Commerce.
gold and silver in ship loads from afar and hend ngafost the rebels. At San Inldro, Ja
stored it in the belief that it meant wealth, Nueva Ecija, the Spaniardy were surrounded by
the Their descendants are reaping the folly of their Mr. C. I. Didge, Chaliman of raging masses of rebels, boining and murdering
ancestors, and their condition should nerve as all round, and were only saved from massacre Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, left here
warning to the Englishman of today. Not in by the opportare arrival of troops who drove for Peking, prsterday, by the steamship Tun back the rebels, 500 strong. The troops lost only chew, for the purpose of interviewing Sirone, but in every branch of industry is the one wounded. In the province of Tatler, Claude MacDonald, Sir Robert Hart, and the impulse of commercial necessity wanting. Take a suspected rebel turned approver, and denounc- 1 Tsung-11 Yeman with regard to several the one which has been before us for a consider-specified in the shipbuilding rules need not be į restraining the delendants or their agenta from
matters of vital importance to Beltirable time, namely, the farming interest. The Ostensibly Mr. Dudacon's visit to Peking is in and foreign trade generally in the East. at generation of farmers have left no reference to the folly and injustice of taxing locally manufactured pelton goods more than those imported, and also the preference shown in this connection to mills owned outfrely by Chloess. The question of the proposed raising of the tariff will be borne in mind by Mr.
matters. A better selection than Mr. Datgenz could scarcely have been made, baring in view the delicate nature of bls mission sad the know ledge and attainments absolutely necessary for tucessful bandling which he fortunately possesses. We may add that we have good reason for bell-ving the Chinese idea is to im pose a tax of 313 per cent, upon ginned and go
MASONS IMPLICATED,
On the gth, the authorlifes discovered a masonic lodge at Manda, biliberto unsuspected. A number of documents were seized in the lodge, They are said to be of a compromising nature. In Carlie, the rebels went on burning down houses, and the rebels in Nueva Ecija and entered the province of Pampanga where so many joined them that they soon mastered eight hundred strong. These rebels cut off the bead of every Spaniard they met. The loyal partion
too seriously.
The wealth of the
of the people had to fire before them until troops 】 conduct the Chinese case. They will be gled and of adversity. It is a money wealth
arrived on the scrne,,
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THE COVERNOR-GENERAL CONGRATULATED.
ed a certain masonic lodge as concerned In the Elsing; this lodge is said to have been active in sedition.
STARMOTHENING THR ARMY.
On the sith, it was announced that the Phi- Uppine army would be reinforced by eight thou- sand Spanish troops.
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present-day the
specimen
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2-More than one ship-architect and one engineer must be appointed to the respective special departments there experts are to be graduates of the College of Engineering of the Imperial University, or institutions of similar standing, who have been engaged for over three years in ship building or in the construction of machines; or they must be successful candidates in an examination specified by the Minister of Communications, after having been engaged in practical work for over SOYED YEATS.
The qualifications of ships entitled to receive a bounty are most elaborsie. They provide that with the exceptions specified below, steamers applying for the bounty must be double- bottomed for their whole length :--
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sections of the Ordinance relating to the case, and an affidavit filed by the plaintiff. The affidavit stated that the plaintiff owned three hadses in Pak Chi Lane, in one of which he re- sided. On the N.E. side there was an epan space of court belonging to the plaintiff and abatting it were three houses in Gage Street belonging to the defendants who were entitled to a right of way in, ever, opon, and along the N.E. part of the space. On Friday, the 18th SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME AU CAPITAL DE September, the defendants catered into the open space and wrongfully erected scaffolding thereon. On Sunday the 20th, they broke up the surfice of the court and dog a bench therein for the purpose of laying drains to drain defendants' houras. On the 24th they placed drain pipe down and 19 hindered the plaintiff in the B hereby notified that on presentation of the 24th no work had been done by the delen- ingress and egress of his premises. Since
His Lordship-The defendants commenced work on the 18th and nothing was done by the plaintiff until the 24th ?
Mr. Francis-The delay in taking action caused by the difficulty there always la in getting Chinamen to understand their rights and the position in which they stand. They have to turn over things in their mind before they conauit a sollektär and they have no comprehen- Injunction.
Ships whose gross tonnage is below 2,000 *—Ships for special purposes, for whose con- struction an acknowledgment from the Mini aler of Communications has been obtained. An appendix has, however, been provided to the effect that for the present the provision reston to apply to the Court for an Immediate lating to the full double bottom shall not be ap- plied to ships that are bullt in accordance with the Shipbuilding Encouragement Law. For ships whose fitness is specially recognised by the Mini- stay, the provisions relating to the examination
applied. Even when the style of construction may Det exactly correspond with the rules pertain- fag to the Shipbuilding Law, the Minister may, when such skips are judged to be fully efficient, pass them se qualified. Again, even when ship may not successfully have passed an examinatior, the Minister may allow the grant
and a pict to aid them at the town and arsenal | Dudgeon in addition to other less weighty spolled, he has no resource but to set up a host or specifying the moda ef employment and
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At Cavite, the rebels continued to gain ground,
of that name was discovered just in time to frostrate it. There, on the 1stb, thirteen rebel leaders were tried by court-martial and shot. Several of them wern Government officials, lund, owners, or traders. When sentence was read dut, most of them wept. Upon this, one of their number turned and said: "You should not weepi we well deserve what we gel”. The province of Cavile is now the main reat of revolt, and there §.per cent, on vngisned cotton, the rebelilon mikes most head. It has also renched the province of Batangas where, roth, two hundred armed men attacked and sacked the chiel town,
thale
Cantinaing, Mr. Francis sald in the action the platetiff claims $1,000 damag: against the defendants for wrongfully entering the plaintiff's land and excavating and laying drains therein, and secondly the plaintiff sand for an injunction continuing the work. He also claimed his costs. Evidence was given of the service of the wilt
en the second defendant.
His Lordship ordered an injunction against the second defendant to true in the terms of the notice of mation and to last until the heading of the ault or until a' further order was made.
SUMMARY JURISDICTION,
September 28th.
cross between a herd batiiff and a gamekeeper. A hunter or a trotting.mare seems to be the all and the end of his thoughts. The polish on his gun barrel is of more consequènes than the condi- tion of his farm implements, When by the importation of foreign produce his market is of recrimination and cast the blame an all and imlung the locality of her voyages. When sundry, but without any attempt to start a fresh shipowners desire
abips to bo (Before His Honour Mṛ, T. Sarcombe Smlik, line of agricultura whereby to minimise the evil. registered on the Imperial'ship list, prior to the
Acting Putina Fudge.) It is want of brain that is causing the farm
enforcement of the Navigation Encouragement industry to become a byword in the country. A
Law, they must obtain the special certificate few good farmers are to be met with kere and there, and they are well known to be issued by the Minister ordering that the thriving. perhaps beltee than farmers | examination may be dispensed with; the Minis- have done for many a day. But these men tar may allow a certain time for the sending in Does Mr. Dudgeon also bold a brief for the farm with drofns, which is the
more essential Hongkong Chamber and the Hongkong branch element than even the manure with which they of such applications til March 31st, 1898. For of the Chick Association ? If not, why not ? malen rich their acres. So it is in almost every ships for which such an allowance of time is branch of industry. The excellent educailon of the Recorded, the following conditions are to ba German-thorough and adaptable; the "smart specified on the certificates issued ♪~ mess" of the American, unfettered as he is by radition or old world actions; the inexpensive habits of the Frenchman and the Deichman all combine to oast the beme farmer:
to. Itok upon
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THE CUSTOMS TARIFE. - On the 14th fortant, it was announced that the stuntser Isla de Luxon was to leave Spain
SHANGHAI, September aret. on the 18th, with more reinforcements. At China is ́demanding a revisión of the tariff. Manlis, arrests of rebel sympathisere multiplied, and lo a diferent segie every foreign merchant eves women belag taken tato custody, in China would welcome heartlly a thorough | mad to Catisc Maconie books and ducuments of a Secret ravision, a revision that would abolish once and | business with hopelessness. Nor has the Socfely styled Catipunan, supposed to for all the uncertainties attaching to the existing | farmer 12 yét followed the example of his urban be the prime mover in the rebellion, had been relzed. A Volunteer force of and attendant casuistry. Now is the opporically poses of beitering his condition. There is a one, with its pernicious system of precedents brother and learst to combire for the pur- Spaniards had been enrolled at Manila under
to obtain a tariff from which there shall be re good deal too much of the sentiment "the Lord the blessing of the Archbishop of that cly, and departing, plain and sasoiate that he who r001 has promised seed time and harvest in the bad done excellent service in preserving order. may read. China leiking for increase of datles farmer's breast to salt modern competition that In Nueva Ecija, the rebels had destroyed all the which let us by all means agree to but only as a is all very well in its way, and deserves to be houses and plantations belonging to Spaniards, return for requirements on our alde, which will encouraged, but it should not be allowed to many of whom have been completely ruined to otherwise never be given except as a guid pro supplant the fact that "the Lord helps those that consequence. In Tayabas, the rebels bad
quo. Amongst such requirements a foremost helps themselves." In Hongkong your English retreated into the mountalar." In Carlie, gas- pince should be found for an absolute tariff (the|| shopkeeper has seen his best days and it la boats have to watch the coast to keep the rebels English text to be the authoritative one), | evident that he cannot withstand the com. aff. The Comercio insists that masonle lodges the abolition of ad valerm duties and the petition to which he is belag submitted. stirred up the revolt. It seems that many of the substitution of specific duties in their place, One can buy a Japanese umbrella In Hong. sebils wear the masonic emblem of the triangle,
DR. FERSIN'S PLAGUE CURE,
LONDON, August z9th,
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so that valuation and its accompanying kong for 75 cents, quits good enough to keep evila of bribery, unfair valuation, ec, may off the falú or to be lost. Your Chinese tallors be also done away with. The anomalies of the | make three-fourths of the clothing for Europeans, | present system are numerous. Under the present and so with the shoemaker, batter, draper, etc. tariff 'Articles de Menigalare fres, 'yet every They are employed because they do as the cus Item mentioned under that heading is charged | tomer wishes them to, and they are content with as datfable at 5 per cent, unless for privato use, * fate proft. In Hongkong as in many other We learn from Amoy, China, that Dr. Yersin an exception not mentioned in the tariff or treaty, colonies the shopkeeper is content with nothing has been experimenting with his plague serum. Foreign carpeting is free according to tariff yet is | other than a profit which is best described as Up to date he is reported to have ented upwards charged 5 per cent. duty on the ground (not rascally. What other term can be applyed to of twenty plague patients. The cures are mentioned in the tariff or treaty) that it is for
a profit which is often go per cent, aye, 100 reported to be marvellous, as many of the Chinese us, Under cotton piece goods. "delils or aco per cent. above the actual cont of the the patients were in high fever, the baboss and jeans" not exceeding 30 ins, wide and not article. Into the breach steps the fap or fally developed, and the sufferers in exceeding 30 yards long are scheduled as German and, content with a fale profit, caUSOF comatose state. In Canton Dr. Yersin, on July paying 71 candareens per plece, yet if the same bin English rival to fall behind in JB, 1896, accordleg to Bishop Chausse, effected driif is imported with the inner surface raised,
The exhibition of Colonial producis, a remarkable cure on a very unmistakeable and as for Canion Flannels, although sill remaining or rather of goods supuled by European * very severe case of plague. After showing absolutely a cotton drill by some mysterions to Brkish colonial markets, although as the Amoy deptor his methods of injection, he process of reasonleg worthy of the seclent yet only a low of the West Indian Islands have returned to Saigon. It in stated in the news. Father's it has to pay 5 per cent ad valorem, got their samples in shows plainly enough papers in Chios that It takes six monthe lo Printed cotton piece goods not exceeding 31 that the Englishmen through want of brains, prepare the serum that Dr. Yersin first inches wide and not exceeding 30 yards long through want el adaptability, through lack of
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March 31st, 1897, and the acknowledgment of That unless the certificate be forwarded by the Minister of Communications be applied for, the perind covered by the certificate will be
lovalidated
That unless the acknowledgment of the
will not be given. Minister specified above is obtained, the bounty
That the examination specified in the rules Petaling to the Ship-building Law may be
pulled for even the period allowed.
That various obligations specified in the Navigation Encouragement Law most be folfilled even during the period allowed.--Fapan Mail.
TIENTSIN NOTES.
(From an occasional Correspondent.)
-FIXTURES,
SIX MILLIONS.
REPAYMENT OF ISSUE OF 6,000 DEBENTURES OF $100 EACH.
DEARERS of the above-named BONDS are
INDO CHINE on or after the due date, the seth the same at the Offices of the Bànque ne
September, 1896, they will be Pald, together with the Interest due to that date.
Hongkong, 24th September, 1896.
[1493
THE DAIRY FARM:COMPANY, LIMITED.
“HAREHOLDERS who have not yet applied for SCRIP is exchange for their holding in the OLD COMPANY are reminded that, by the terms set forth in my circular letter of the ret Inalant, WEDNESDAY #8x); the gath, is the last day on which applications can be received for Shares in the NEW COMPANY.
W, HUTTON POTTS,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 16th September, 1895.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
T
[1513
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB WID
HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of
be held in the CITY HALL on FRIDAY, 'the 2nd October proximo, at 5 PM. ..By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course, Hongkong, 18th September, 180l. [1473
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
of the MEMBERS of THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB convened in accordance with Ralo gr of the Rules of the Cind will be held at
The following cases are fixed for the respec- the CITY HALL, FRIDAY next, the and day five dates:—
Wednesday, September 30th. 1363-Kwong Tong Cheong Tam
8.73135
Keno. Shing Kéz Co. zmernok$ 28310 Thursday, October 1st. 1303-Gustav Aisenroth and aar vi
Chay Loang Chaer Friday, October and, 1433-Robert Douglas,v, D.K. Griffith.
Saturday, October 3rd,
Hang
siamo...$ gat.oo 1304-Leung Kok Was v. Ng Tik
The following can wax adjourned sine die vo 1181.-LI Yik Loong v. Sul Man Hop-
0.03
alias Sal Turg.................................................................... $209,80. 1215,-Sal Man Hap v. Li Yik Loeng... 455,60
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE
:
of October, 1800, àt 4.30 P.3, for the purpose of considering and !! thought fit altering Rule 9 of the Rules of the Club by expanglog tha words "not being Officers of the Army of Navy" | when such words occur in Rule 9.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course: Hongkong, 25th September, 1896. it will be subrated for confirmation at a Second P.S.-Should the above resolution be passed
| Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened under and in accordados | wilk Rule as of the Rules of the Club. F2505
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
【OTICE is hereby given that the Twenty-
Society will be held at its Head Office, No. 4 The Fraya, Hongkong, on Thursday, the Bia October, 1896, st Noon, for the purpose of | Receiving the Report of the Directors, together American (City of Rio de Janeiro) 30th Inst. with Statement of Accounts for the year 1805, Engilah (Mfürsoßove) and proz.
and for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1896, Tacoma (Olympia) 4th'prox. ・・
and of Declaring Dividends, „Canadian (Empress of China) 6th prez.
American}{City of Piking) 19th pron.
Australian (Changsha) to-morrow,
The P. M. S. S. Co's steamer City of Rio de Fanstro, with malls, etc. left Nagasaki for this port si 4 max.fyesterday.
P/Tientsin, September 16th. The river is no better ↑ Chinese officialdom courteously declined Mir, de Linde's offer to closa the breach on the ground that they had already engaged in do la thametives". That was a wosk ago ; during the interval they have brought'down a few pilen and a a few sampan leads of millet, but nothing "elie" Hat" been dane. "The Folko meanwhile continues merrily to pour his food through the brisk and Tientsia is about as much of sea-port is Mont Blanc is, Things however probably soon mend, as the British and
THE P. & 0.5. N. Co.'s reamer Sunds, from German Minimara have begun to expreza mai- ters strongly at the Faking Yamba. The raalaan and China, arrived at London on the cause of the latest fairs is of course the tnet afternoon of the 26th Inst. | that each official · Vers is keen to save his pocket, there being apparently no public funds for the blazer demands of river conser vancy.” As you recently remarked, Log le King.
STRONG LAİN KATETIM
is our next excitement. In prospect. He la expected about the seth inst. Speediation is rile
+
THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co. steamship Empress of China arrived at Yokoliams at 1.30. p.m. yesterday, and left at a pan, to-day for this port
The Transier Books of the Bociaty will be Closed from the noth - September to the dtá October, both days inclusive,
· By Order of the Board,
:
N. J. EDE,
Secretary. Hongkong, roth September, 1896.- [1463
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE FIFTEENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARR- HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at is o'clock (Noox), on MON- DAY, the roth October,
...... The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
Inoculates rats and then horses, from which | was intended to cover any printed cotton cloths, | push, throgh being hampered by old fashioned as to kis fufara, umployment 1 the old Empree THE F.&O. Co.'s steamship Mirzapore, with will be CLOSED from the 5th to the 19th sources be oblains his fluid. It will be remem. | and such is one's imprezalon until informed by nations, through cursed insular pride and pres is now all-powerful in Peking, and big deductions/ the next English mail, left Singapore for the October, both days inclusive..
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bered that Dr. Yersin laboured conscientiously the Customs that it is only intended to apply judice is being cut out by a cleverer race of at plague during the summer of 1894, and the to the class known prints in the home who in the minds of Impassioned onlookers de favourable to Li are being made from that fact, port at 4 p.m. yesterday, and may be expected excellent work he accomplished entilles any trade, and that any other printed cottons cust serve all they can get. Take the question of His appolatmeal to the Viceroyalty of the here at 4 pm, on the and pros, bacteriological research undertaken by him to pays per cent, ad valorem. Flannellaties, where ille insurance in the Far East: what English Metropolitan province in freely spoken sí, all respect. It is a pity the treatment he has made entirely of cotton, should come under the firm bothers to send round special travallers nobody knows if he would care to come. Those behind the scenes, are of vary· delberste devised could not be carried out under the eyes Dyed ePrinted Cotton classes at either to cater for work; they are content with appoineoplaton that now that Pakleg has found ont From & pas. Saturday' to 8 p.m. today, of the medical profession in Hongkong, kostead of || 15 candarmenn or y candarensa per pieca duty | ing agonis and with a’Hitle advertising. Not no at in the seclusion of Frosch mission seminary in respectively, hat the Customs again ignore the the American: The Equitable and New Yorkcase of ordering great imaments, it will
Canton. This may be accounted for, not from tariff and charge them per cent, ad Lis office has axente constantly at work up. never allow that function to be located elsewhere. Amara steamer from Samarang.
not free salon. Copper sheathing and copper thests and down costs of the Far Xin. They sore mes stores all over is is Chinese foreign atrocias
experienceot two years has also transferred. Askum......... Any misgiving as the cogency of tas bat owing to a misunderstanding between the are charged by tariff at different rates, admirably suited to the occasion, and maku la French specialist and the medical efficials in but the Castomas treat them as one at their profession to Look after the interests of politics to Peng, the fornige masters of the Thales Hongkong on the occasion of his, sejoss the highest ratsastances could be multiplied their employers. As Lord Sallsbury saldry, dustion may go tolerate the reversion to the Tairang
ala wats of fake by which deal decisions in Torres ¶¶ amongst them in, 1894., Wa await a detailed; in a great extent. Tanad Valorem priacipio is a can make laws but we cannot be expected to report of the results of the inoculations at cars to the trade of the port, for mative Importers provide comesercial travellers Zagland fonds polle wire taken in Li's yanke la Fukun Amoy with interest, and we may even say with make an habitual practice of offeray bribes to seems to be resting on her ears all round while back he would probably and his offer much LEMBON
Tientsin, so that if the old Viceroy were to come Bygde abriety and the scientific world may rest extdoor native and folga officers for lower the race is to the men whom we ons seran tean Important then formerly, li ha le to play Vamda termed that any publication made by him is valuation than otherwise would be given, and tolerated as mere itinerant muzicons--Germis to be treated at the watcome of a thorough it is not sight that such an opening should exlat, bands, and bouse waiters. If a NAVY Learn fast Bidig, or a leading part. I fear ke well have. Kalsong Invenigation which can be relied upon, as is to defrand the Cantecas and injure those who is an serential element in our Imperial driesce to stay with the esclustra la the capliais e Renang Recuracy of detall and precision of observás | will not stoop to auch dishonest methods. The ■ Commercial Leagus, with parallel lines of tion. We earnestly: wlak" the treatment : alj | cool Ingsoring of a-tariff/which forisa part of || aztion; was never tiore wanted that now,” Success—Bytisch Midicat Journal,
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· "TION COMPANY, LIMITED, SHAREHOLDERS are hereby informed that GENERAL MEETING. Bold in LONDON recently an INTERIM DIVIDEND of 3 PER CENT. WE DECLARED on the COMPANY'S PREFERENCE. SHARRS for the Sir Moura ending 30th Jané, this being at the rate of 6 pex CIME FIR AUDITIO
The DIVIDEND WARRANTS will be ready on the Tet October
TATRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the sock lastane tif the 1st October, Indiasive, and
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